A dictionary teaches a child how to approach a problem and use critical thinking skills by sounding out the word and finding it in the dictionary. This simple task gives them a feeling of self-confidence and satisfaction that they cannot get online.

Kenneth Haesly, Rotary Club of Pasadena, Pasadena, TX

This will be our third year to deliver a dictionary to every third grader in the Pasadena Independent School District. With this current delivery we will have totaled over 13,000 dictionaries delivered in three short years. It is amazing the joy that simple act brings to these kids and in turn the same can be said for the Rotary members. In the Pasadena Independent School District approximately 75%-80% of the children our on the free lunch program. This dictionary quickly becomes a prized possession for kids who do not have much else that is just theirs!